Overheard in My Dream
"He has the moral fiber of an Australian haircut."
posted by Peter Cherches at 7:58 AM
Sunday, October 26, 2008
About Me
- Name: Peter Cherches
Called “one of the innovators of the short short story” by Publishers Weekly, Peter Cherches is a writer, singer and lyricist. Over the past 40 years, his work, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, has appeared in scores of magazines, anthologies and websites, including Transatlantic Review, Bomb, Harper’s, North American Review, Semiotext(e), and Poetry 180. Poet Billy Collins wrote, “To Gödel, Escher, and Bach we might consider adding Peter Cherches.” Whistler’s Mother’s Son is his most recent short prose collection from Pelekinesis.
Recent Posts
- Double Date
- Pasta con le Sarde
- It's Time to Start Thinking About Thanksgiving
- Prayer Booth
- A Breakfast Malfunction and a Discourse on Tipping
- "I Have to Tell You About These Oysters" as told b...
- Three New Pieces in Mung Being
- A Shout Out to Shtreimel on Yom Kippur
- I Have to Tell You About These Oysters
- The 0% Solution
- Back to Di Fara
- Support Your Local Small Business
- My Quest for Non-Alcoholic Gin
- Celiac-Friendly New York Without Compromise
- Downtown Made Me
- The Energy
- Rethinking the Cuban Sandwich
- A Memorable Menu
- Turkey Words
- Pide Party
- Dieting
- On Menu Scouting
- Ice Cream Jottings
- What's a Shmendrik?
- Holy Shit, Shatnez?
- I Was Culinarily Transgendered
- Rolled Beef, an Endangered Deli Meat
- A Kiss to the Blarney Stone
- Food Aromas
- Guy Kibbee Eggs
- Shrimp and Grits
- Chinese Food, the Early Years
- The Szechuan Seventies
- The Cantonese Comeback
- Stalking the Elusive Yunnan Cuisine
- Save the Butterfly Shrimp
- A Chinese Restaurant Dream
- Wu Liang Ye
- Wu Liang Ye II: Hounded
- Friend is the new Acquaintance (Facebook)
- When Good Restaurants Do Bad Websites
- Restaurant Websites Redux
- Bathroom Behavior on the Subway
- "Health Vegetarians"
- Leaving Momofuku to Others
- Una Pizza Overrated
- How Was Everything?
- The White Man's Dosa
- My Lunch with Ed Koch
- Choosing a Guidebook
- Small World Stories
- Eudora Welty at the Supreme Court
- Local Color
- Nostalgia for Kerala and its Food
- Nightmare in Karnataka
- Berber Shows and Chickie Grills
- Mr. Cherches Goes to India, Part I
- Mr. Cherches Goes to India, Part II
- The Road to Istria, Part I
- The Road to Istria, Part II
- The Old Neighborhood
- Halloween Story
- New Daddy with a Mustache
- Young Pete: The Dream
- 3 brief fat boy memories
- My Life of Crime
- Mrs. Zabell's Wrist
- Sable
Selected Earlier Posts
Chinese Food
Rants
Travel
Childhood
2 Comments:
Hi Peter,
I took your experimental writing workshop at NYU back in the early 90s and was wondering what you were up to. Great to find this site. Your writing--and that class--still inspire me more than 15 years later.
-Tim
Thanks, Tim. I remember you and I'm touched by your comment.
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